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Introduction to Printing

Printing is similar to drawing graphics and text to a graphics context, with the printer represented by a graphics device. The picture is complicated by several factors:

The treatment of printing as a graphics-only operation means that printing to text-only printers is not supported (except by direct output to a printer port).

UI variants may provide stock printing dialogs for users to initiate and control print jobs. It is normal for applications that provide printing to supply print job setup (from the Print Framework API) and their printing implementation to use these dialogs.


See also

Print Framework.